pollster for president jimmy carter, and doug schoen, fox contributor and former pollster for bill clinton. our third insider, former new york congressman, john leboutillier, is home with the flu, john if you are watching, i know you probably are, we wish you well. speedy recovery and our prayers are with you. here we are discussing this and we five days away from the draconian measures that will kick in, automatic spending cuts. why are we discussing it when it did not have to happen? >> because there is a lack of leadership in washington. president obama only plays class warfare. he attacks the republicans for being agents of the rich. he is not serious. the republicans have no narrative, no argument, no plan of their own. both sides are playing politics. >> it is worse than that. we have cuts that are not across the board cuts but selected cuts, we are not touching social security or medicare or entitlements which are driving the cost up, and health care, which is driving the costs, they are not touched. these are selective cuts, and are triggered across the board and they have been off